Keeping the clean version around seems dangerous advice.

You know it won’t get maintained if there are changes / fixes. So by the time someone may needs to rewrite the part, or application many years later (think migration to different language) it will be more confusing than helping.

That was a decade or two ago. Now you need a react SPA webapp using angular and Rust and utilize the bandwidth of the Cloud with machine learning. To find the IP.

You couldn’t find a gui designer for intellij, so you consider rewriting the whole application? in C++?!

Would seem easier to learn that ui framework.

For UI maybe look into javafx as an alternative. I haven’t used it, so can’t tell how the design process goes. But it seems to be the only current ui framework for Java.

Just because you got served bad food it does not mean you know how to make good food.

Why are you in programming related communities if you don’t enjoy it?

You wrote you want a full keyboard with F keys, arrow, and numpad - but it can be compact too.

What would be an example of that combination?

Try a backlit keyboard, especially for late night coding sessions. But that will likely conflict with the Bluetooth requirement. Does not have to be per key rgb; a fixed single color will be good enough.

Your first paragraph likely also applies to many senior software developers, especially if they primarily worked in small companies / freelance.

I’m aware, the halting problem is semi decideable - only positive instances of the problem can be decided.

Process.start(program, arguments)
Print(“it finished”)

It should not do that. Have you tried restarting it?

Oh it no longer starts? That’s an hardware issue. Let’s build another and see if the same error occurs.

Windows Vista on a laptop with 2gb ram :)

Great suggestion by a fellow IT student to try arch, so I learn the system from the ground up.

Easy access to small snippets of code you often need, but putting them in their own library would be crazy.

• Opening a file / db connection
• parsing xml/json/… ,
• template for unit tests,
• import and initialization of framework at work.

Depending on the IDE snippets can also move parts of the code around: (intellij live templates)

• variable.notnull -> if (variable != null) {… }
• “text %s”.format -> String.format(“text %s”,…)

Also bike shedding. Simple stuff may get many people willing to review / argue about how you should have used A over B, or even C

Big / complicated projects - forget it. Especially if if they would need major refactoring.

Not exactly what you want, but plug-ins like sonarlint can nudge you in the right direction.

The variable is set once, but the if expression is still evaluated every time (unless the compiler can optimize it)

(edit after skimming the article: yes,using the variable would solve the problem of the last example)

So there would be the branching overhead in every iteration. But that’s something the cpu branch prediction should cover, especially since the taken branch will be identical in every loop.

Same also applied to the implied condition to break the for loop (only the first few and last iteration should be wrong predictions)

How was the process of learning it / getting good for you, as it can be really frustrating in the beginning?

Concepts still apply, so for a beginner an outdated book would still be a valuable source.

From there you can get up to date with the newest features with articles / tutorials. Cloud services probably should be first thing you develop for.

A compiler has mostly fixed rules for translation. The English language often is ambiguous and there are many ways to implement something based on a verbal description.

Programming by using the ai as a “compiler” would likely lead to many bugs that will be hard to impossible to trace without knowing the underlying implementation. But hitting compile again may lead to an accidental correct implementation and you’d be none the wiser why the test suddenly passes.

It’s ok as an assistant to generate boilerplate code, and warn you about some bugs / issues. Maybe a baseline implementation.

But by the time you’ve exactly described what and how you want it you may as well just write some higher level code.

Give the windows registry a shot.

Maybe not straight…